Raghbir Singh Khakha

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Mr Khakha’s NHS practice is based in central London teaching hospital Guy’s and St Thomas’. He has been in consultant practice since 2017 dealing with all elements of knee related injuries ranging from children’s knee injuries right the way through complex redo surgery. 

His philosophy is based on joint preservation surgery, where he routinely performs ligament repairs and reconstructions, meniscal repairs and osteotomy surgery. He regularly accepts referrals from other orthopaedic centres to manage complex primary and redo knee reconstructive surgery. 

Following his successful completion of fellowship in the US at Massachusetts General Hospital in trauma surgery and knee fellowship at North Hampshire Hospitals, Mr Khakha embarked on his consultant career at Guy’s and St Thomas’. Prior to this, he trained on the South-East London Training Rotation. 

He is also Knee Lead Tutor for South London and KSS Trauma and Orthopaedic training programme and is Honorary clinical lecturer at Kings College London, where he is also Patron of the Orthopaedic Society. He has a passion for research as well as education and training, and regularly speaks at international and national meetings on modern minimally invasive knee surgical techniques. 

 

Mr Khakha completed his medical degree at St Georges University Hospital in 2006. He was awarded a BSc with honours at University College London in Orthopaedics and went to complete a Masters in the same field at the University of Brighton. He is an honorary senior lecturer at King’s College London and oversees surgical fellows looking to refine their skills in knee surgery.

Chinmay Gupte

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Imperial College London

Mr Chinmay Gupte is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Clinical Reader (Associate Professor) in knee and trauma surgery at Imperial College, London, which encompasses St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospitals. 

His main interests are in the diagnosis and treatment of sports knee injuries and knee arthritis, together with trauma and fracture surgery. He performs both arthroscopic (keyhole) and open procedures, in particular cruciate ligament surgery, meniscal repair, patellar stabilisation, children's knee surgery and knee replacement. 

Mr Gupte is a specialist knee surgeon with over 10 years experience as consultant, but also has an active research and teaching interest in knee problems. 

As director of training for trauma and orthopaedics for London deanery NW Thames (2011-2018) Mr Gupte helped reshape training for the consultants of the future in this region. He is also ex President of the Royal Society of Medicine Orthopaedics Section having served as President in 2012, and is a member of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee. He was awarded a PhD from Imperial College in 2004 for his work on the meniscofemoral knee ligaments and their role in knee arthritis and ligament injury. He won the prestigious British Orthopaedic Association Robert Jones Gold Medal Proxime Accessit in 2005. He has published over 70 papers in this and other topics which include shoulder and ankle surgery, tuberculosis and training the surgeons of the future. 

He continues his research as a Clinical Reader in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College, with particular emphasis in meniscal surgery and knee ligament reconstruction, and also in arthroscopic simulator training, with the aspiration of improving outcomes in patients with knee problems. He helps train surgeons of the future at Imperial, He is a cofounder for the patient access website www.orthoconsent.com, which provides information on common procedures. 

His time as captain of Oxford University and professional cricketer in 1995/6 has given Chinmay added insight into t he unique needs of sportsmen in returning to sport after injury; experience that he brings to bear in his clinical practice. 

Jawad Sultan

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon

I am a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, who specialises in the management of disorders of the knee. My clinical practice encompasses all aspects of knee surgery including the treatment of sports injuries, ligament injuries, arthritis and patella instability. 

I specialise in all aspects of arthritis and joint degeneration, including nonoperative treatment (injections, orthotics, rehab), cartilage regeneration procedures, kKnee re-alignment osteotomies, total and partial knee replacement, customised patient-specific knee (ConforMIS) and robotic knee replacement (Mako). 

For sports knee injuries I offer knee arthroscopy (keyhole surgery), meniscus repair / transplant, ligament reconstruction, patella (kneecap) dislocation & instability, chondral (joint surface) injuries and cartilage regeneration procedures and overuse conditions eg tendinitis. 

Since completing my training in 2016, I have performed hundreds of knee arthroscopies, replacements (partial and total), ligament reconstructions and osteotomies. I perform complex multi-ligament knee and joint reconstruction surgery at Manchester Royal Informary Major Trauma Centre, and lead the Soft Tissue Knee MDT. 

I completed my specialist surgical training in the North West of England, and was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS T&O) in 2016. I undertook prestigious knee fellowships in Harrogate, Cardiff and France, where I worked with world-renowned knee surgeons specialising in partial knee replacements, knee ligaments reconstruction, osteotomies and patellofemoral joint surgery. Following five years as a consultant at Royal Bolton Hospital, I was selected in 2021 to lead the acute knee services at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust - Manchester Royal Infirmary, Trafford General Hospital. 

I am experienced in clinical and laboratory research, including the use of gait analysis. I completed an MSc in Orthopaedic Engineering at Cardiff University. My dissertation, A New Approach to Prevention of Knee Osteoarthritis, was presented at national and international conferences, and awarded Sir John Charnley and the British Association of Surgeons of the Knee prizes. I have several publications, and numerous presentations at national and international conferences. 

I lead the Soft Tissue Knee MDT at Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where I perform complex multi-ligament knee and joint reconstruction surgery. I am the Clinical Governance Lead at Manchester Royal Infirmary Major Trauma Centre. I sit on national BASK committees to produce national guidance for knee surgery. 

I teach medical students at the University of Manchester, as well as on ATLS and knee replacement and trauma courses, and train junior doctors as part of the North Western Deanery Orthopaedic Rotation. I am a regular examiner of medical students at the University of Manchester, and am actively involved in training of junior surgeons in the NHS 

Oday Al-Dadah

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, South Tyneside Hospital. Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University

Oday Al-Dadah is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at South Tyneside Hospital with a special interest in reconstructive knee surgery and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Translational and Clinical Research Institute at Newcastle University. He’s from Ayrshire and graduated from Dundee University Medical School. He completed his higher surgical training as a specialist registrar on the Cambridge training programme. He then completed sub-specialist fellowship training at the Professorial Knee Unit in Southampton and also the Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol. 

His consultant practice includes all aspects of knee surgery ranging from sports injuries to joint replacement surgery. Arthroscopic cartilage and meniscus surgery ranging from meniscectomy and meniscal repair right through to allograft meniscus transplant and cartilage transplant surgery of the knee. His ligament surgery armamentarium includes anterior and posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction as well as medial collateral ligament and postero-lateral corner reconstruction. For young adult patients with arthritis he performs peri-articular knee realignment osteotomies including high tibial osteotomy and distal femoral osteotomy. He performs a high number of partial knee joint replacements using minimally invasive techniques encompassing medial and lateral uni-compartmental knee replacement, patello-femoral joint replacement and segmental bi-compartmental knee replacement. He led and developed the highly successful and innovative day case joint replacement programme at his hospital. He has considerable experience in complex primary and revision knee arthroplasty. He also has an interest in complex knee trauma including peri-articular and peri-prosthetic knee fractures and knee dislocations. He is experienced in paediatric knee surgery too. He also performs surgery for patella instability including medial patello-femoral ligament reconstruction, tibial tuberosity transfer and trochleoplasty. 

Oday Al-Dadah completed his Doctorate Thesis on the topic of cruciate ligament and meniscus surgery during his research fellowship within his time as a specialist registrar. He has presented his research both nationally and internationally and has won numerous prizes and gold medals for best podium presentations. He has many publications in peer reviewed journals. He has successfully supervised many research fellows at Newcastle University most of whom achieve distinctions and merit level awards for their thesis. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Knee journal where he has the privilege of working with an international editorial board of esteemed academic knee surgeons from all over the world. He is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) and privileged to be an executive board member of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK).